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The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21

A correspondent of the Toronto Globe sug-
gests that commercial union with Great
Britain would be more advantageous to Can
ada than commercial union with the Unit
ed States. Such scheme would, he thinks,
be favorably looked upon by three classes in
England-the landowners. the farmers and
the manufacturers-bec it would prom
Use better results in England for farming,
and q freer market in Canada for the British
manufacturer. But how about the British
workingneanP How would he relish seeing
tax imposed on American breadstuffs for
tho benefit Of the Canadians, for that is
what the scheme of commercial union with
Great Britain implies?
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21

The Marine Journal of this week calls att
tention to a recent ruling of the customs au-
thorities of Washington that is Of considera-
BILE interest to the builders Of yachts and
at the same time gives place IN its columns
to a communication that is If interest to
those who sail yachts. By this ruling for
eign-built yachts are admitted to certain
privileges in this country, which the Journal
says, practically amount to the same thing as
If they were admitted to American registry.
They can be owned and sailed in American
clubs under the American flag, and enjoy all
the necessary privileges Of a yacht that has
been built by our own mechanics. The
practical effect of this ruling will be that the
yacht builder who wishes to buy any of the
foreign fittings which 20 into the construc-
ton Of a foreign-built yacht-for instance,
some of the English white hemp canvas that
is preferred by many yachtsmen to American
cotton canyas,-he must pay a heavy duty
while the rich gentleman who may buy an
English yacht with the fittings all on her,
can practically import her free of duty. At
present American yachts are enjoying an
envlable reputation at home and abroad, and
the practical effect of this ruling may not be
manifested. tits conceivable, however, that
time might come, especially if we should
lose the Americas cup, when the English
yacht would be the popular craft. Then the
ruling might make it uncomfortable for our
yacht builders
The prominence Of our yachtsmen during
recent seasons has suggested to a different
department Of the government, the Navy de-
partment, that the amateur sailors of our
pleasure fleets might be attracted into the Ma
val Reserve which is proposed. An old
yachtsman writes to the Marine Journal that
there are over eight hundred yachts enrolled
in the various clubs Of this country. There
are. he thinks, at least as many more small
yachts, owned and sailed in small ports
along the seaboard, and around the lakes,
which are not enrolled in any club. In es-
timating the number Of young men who are
Their regularly connected with these boats
IS owners or members of their crews, or in,
directly as friends of the crews, occasionally
lending a hand to sail them. he finds, by al
lowing five men or grown boys to each boat,
that we have a reserve of eight thousand
men and boys with liking for life on the
OCedh wave, anu edCH WIN 5lo"'oi Va MOO
knowledge Of nautical affairs. The hardy
sailors that the fisheries of Portland and
Gloucester have trained up would, in actual
trouble probably look on the yachting con-
tingent with considerable dsdain. But this
is certain the spirit and courage that prompt
the young man to become yachtsman are
just such qualities as are needed in navy;
md the yachting reserve would undoubtedly
4 time give a good account of itself
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21

.-~-lhe Butler Club has had its first annual
dinner, and the chief feature Of it was a
speech by the grand old man" himself as
Col Plympton called the General. The Gen
erals speech was confined chiefly to dis
cussion Of the battle flags order, which he
condemned without reservation as against
the law and an affront to the patriotic senti-
ment Of the country He was inclined to
acquit the President Of blame, saying that
he acted in accordance with the best light
he had-an allusion Of course to the Cabinet,
for which Gen. Butler does not have very
high regard. The Butler boom may be said
now to be fairly inaugurated, though the
precise direction it will take cannot be pre-
dicted with much certainty.
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21

The vote for Henry George last fall was
about $4,000. The number of laboring men
who took part in the demonstration in honor
Of Dr. MeGlynn Saturday night was only
6000. The difference between the tive fig
ures represents largely the effect of Dr. Nc
Glynn's cutting loose from the Catholic
church
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21

When one board of grave and reverend
Congregationalists decides that Prof. Smyth
is hereto because he believes the heather
who have had no chance to repent in this
world will have a chance in the next, and
another equally grave and reverend board Of
Congregationalists decides that he is nothing
Of the kind the seeker after truth is a good
deal puzzled and inclined to think that the
ology is not a very exact science.
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21

Our esteemed morning contemporary copies
from the Bangor Wing an article on the Ca
madam Pacific line through Northern Maine,
which originally appeared in the PRESS of
June 14th, and was appropriated by the Wing.
We do not begrudge the Wing the compliment
tary notice which it bestowed upon the arti-
Gle, but would suggest to our Portland con-
temporary that it might have obtained the
same information five days earlier had it
read carefully the PRESS which has all the
latest news
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21

1t looks as though Secretary Endicott
nlght be made the scapegoat of the unpopu-
lar battlefags order. As the Secretary is
considerable Of Mugwump, and has not
been very deferential to Democratic states
men, it would not be strange if the idea Of
sacrificing him to appease the wrath Of the
Northern veterans should prove very popu-
ar with Mr. Cleveland's party.
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21

A 'gorged capitalist" is what the Winni-
peg knights of Labor call Sir George Ste
phen, the President of the Canadian Pacific,
He is not gorged to such an extent, however,
but he can swallow good many more sub
sides
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21
The PRESS
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 81.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu-
nieations. The name and address of the writer
are in all cases indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21

As the Sharp trial progresses and draws
nearer to the critical point Mr.. Sharp grows
more wakeful. He has not snored in the
court room for two days.
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21
CURRENT COM M EMIT.
DEMOCRATIC RESERVE.

DEMOCRATIC RESERVE.
Detroit Tribune.
Talk about the Democrats losing Ken
tueky-why, Kentucky has 100000 gallons
of rye whiskey on hand this very minute!
DOOM OF THE MALE.
lWoman's Journal
The male" may ''hedge" himself as much
as he pleases in his artificial superiority. But
slowly and surely the human being is be-
coming recognized as more than sex, or col
or, or race, or previous condition.
THE LOYAL STATES.
Hartford Courant.1
What in the world does President Cleve-
to the "loyal States?" Aren't we all
loyal States? 1t is just because there
are no Confederate States that. there
is, no one to whom to return the
Confederate flags; and of course emblems Of
disloyalty are entirely inappropriate in any
loyal State.
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21
THE LATE DIR. HITCHCOCK.
rRnsfon Transcrint /


Rev. Dr. Hitchcock's death will cause a
shock in many circles of Boston. He was
well known here, from his vigorous and
strongly compacted sermons, welded togeth-
er by the force of thoroughly trained in
tellect Of unusual fibre and power. His ad-
dresses on miscellaneous subjects, like his
sermons, were always illumined by his great
acquisitions in almost all departments of
learning. He was man of mark, and his
reputation had extended to Europe, where
his biblical expositions were highly priced.
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21

A few more blunders like the battle flag
blunder and Cleveland will not find it neces-
sary to decline second nomination.
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21
BoWdoin College.

EXAMINATIONS for admission to college Will
Ia be held at the Cleveland Lecture Room,
Massachusetts Hail. on FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
June oath and 25th, and on FRIDAY AND SATUR-
DAY, September 9th and 10th, beginning each
day az $50 a. m. All candidates must be present
on Friday morning.
WILLIAM DEW. HYDE, President.
Brunswiek May 27th. 1887. my28d&Wtle25.
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PROPOSALS.
TO CONTRACTORS.

SEALED Proposals will be received by the
- Trustees of the Maine Insane Hospital
Augusta, Me-, until 10 o'clock a. m. July 18th 1887
for building the extensions to the Laundry build
ing.
On and after June 18th, plons and specifications
may be seen, and all information obtained at the
Office Of the Superintendent at the Hospital; and
Me.
Proposals to be left with DR.. B. T. Sanborn Su-
perintendent at the Hospital Augusta, Me. The
Trustees reserve the right to reject any or all pro-
posals.
JAMES WEYMOUTH, building
Bia a Td%M y rss33NNIgoRN.} Committee.
Augusta, Me-. June A. 1887. je11dtd
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e5 PARK STREET.

No places in the day school will be re
served unless previously engaged. iel6d3'
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-21
TEA SETS

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where parties Dining SdebOard
W Dinner Sets everything that Dining
Linen bill allow quarter and the balance
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The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29

deal of that Independence of thought and
action which Mr.. Cleveland manifested in
the early months of his reign have disap-
peared within the past year. He is not the
stubborn man he once was. His party has
got full control of him. and he is compelled
to do its bidding. That has been made evil
dent by his allowing Higgins and other
Federal Office holders to help German out in
Maryland; by his endorsement of Col. Eel
lows, the friend and beneficiary of Tweed,
as proper man to prosecute thieves and
bribers; and by his aid Of Lowering, the
demagogical candidate for Governor of Mas
sachusetts. If now he can be made to take
back his official message to Congress
and substitute another directly opposite in
meaning his surrender will be complete and
the triumph Of the united Democracy of
whom the New York Sun, paper that has
abused the President In more different ways
than any other in the country, will be CON-
plete also. But where will the Mugwumps
l.oO
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29

Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain is having in
Canada more cordial reception than might
have been expected from the outcry that was
raised against him when he first came to
America. just before he embarked he con-
demned the proposition for the commercial
union of Canada with the United States, and
was Immediately lectured and even de-
nounced with great severity by the grit"
press Of Canada. The Toronto Globe, which
was most outspoken against him, now well
comes him in behalf of the Liberals and
Radicals of Ontario with this declaration /:
Barring MIR, Gladstone, there is scarcely an
English statesman whose career in the poll
ties of his own country has been more
admirable. His recent course on the Irish
question indeed appears very lamentable to
the majority of Canadians. But in all other
respects ne has done magnificent service to
British Liberalism. As champion Of work
ingmen and agricultural laborers, as an
enemy of every sort Of privilege, as a leader
of the Nonconformist campaign against the
Anglican Establishment, as an uncompro-
missing opponent Of Jingoism, as Radical
of the Radicals, Mr.. Chamberlain has fairly
won his fame and authority" The good
will thus displayed may be good will towards
Mr.. Chamberlain personally, or it may be in
recognition of past or prospective services to
Canada in the fisheries negotiations now
going on. Canada has been uncertain just
what TO expect from the commissioner from
England, whether warm ally or luke
warm colleague.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29
A DECEM BER SCENE.
BY GEO. B. GRIFFITH.

Iheard as / walked abroad to-day
A robins note by an old brown mill,
And the sunsets flush DER the clouds so gray
Lit the shreds of yapor that fringed the hill!
Cold ashy hues in the West had lam,
Were pictured there in a strange wild way,
Now their ruby light recalled again
The scenes we loved when Jnne held sway.
We turn in life. will some bright ray fall,
Or tender beam gild the brow of age,
While regrets soft touch can halltw ALL
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29
Preparing to Retract.

The New York Sun congIatulates the
Democracy that a split in the party ON the
issue raised by President Clevelands mes
sage is averted. How it is ayerted or will
be, it informs its readers by quoting para
graph from the New York Times in which ii
is said that there is Misrepresentation as
to the Presidents position on the internal
revenue question, and he may deem it neces-
sary 10 send a supplemental message to
Congress on the subject. He does not OPP
pose the repeal Of the tobacco and brandy
tax, and Furthermore he believes that the
internal revenue laws are oppressive as en-
forced under existing legislation" The
Times is not the only paper, however, con-
tanning this information. Within few days
the story has become current, and its re-
peated iteration without denial renders it
almost certain that there is something in it.
Assuming 1t to be true 1t simply means
that the President is to make a retraction
on thequestion raised In his message-that he
is going TO eat his own words. Nothing was
brought out more clearly in the Presidents
message than the fact of the Presidents
opposition to reduction Of the tax on either
whiskey or tobacco. Here is what he wrote.
subjected to internal revenue taxation (which
he specified were tobacco and spirituous and
malt liquors are, strictly speaking. necessares:
there appears TO be no just complaint Of this tax
alton by the consumers OF these articles and
there seems to be nothing so well able to bear the
burden without hardship to any portion OF the
people.
1t is impossible to construe this in but one
way, and that as an expression Of opposition
to any plan for the reduction of the surplus
that contemplated reduction or removal of
the internal revenue taxes
When the message was sent to Congress
we expressed the opinion that the Democ-
racy would never take their stand upon it.
1t was altogether too decided a stand for a
party that had been lodging for quarter of
a century and constructing platforms full of
antiquities to suddenly assume. Besides it
threatened break in the party on the eve
of Presidential election and the destruction
of the harmony so essential to success In
that contest. A compromise had evidently
been partly arranged beforet the message, and
that compromise we believed, would be con-
summated in spite of Mr.. Cleveland's advice
to the contrary.
We hardly expected however, that Mr..
Cleveland could be induced to eat his words
and drift along with the compromise current
as he appears to be about to do. But the
public has not failed to notice that great
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29
n COAL ANIME.
philadelphia North American. ]

One of the worst features about the Read
ing strike is that If it is long continued Goa
famine may ensue and great deal of suffer
ing result. There is only comparatively
small supply Of stove coal in the city, and
unless the company shall succeed in moving
probably advance SO that it will be more
difficult than now for poor people to pur
chase it, If then the miners do not go Il
work and the coal cannot be moved, there
will be such scarcity Of fuel as has not beer
known in many years. If the Lehigh ano
Schuyikili regions are both idle somebody il
going TO be cold and this will not make the
public sympathize with the.strikers.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29
5 Per Cent First Mortgages in Kansas.

During the next 90 days we shall give our Gus
toners per cent. ON any money they may send
us for investments we have for sale. We have on
hand First Mortgages and applications for money
upon first mortgage loans, mostly upon I6O acre
FARMS amounts ranging from $3.50 to $500. We
have also mortgages In amounts 81 900 10 $50 900
at per cent. which we offer. How much money
can you furnish us for these loans? They are
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The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29

The assumption in Europe seems to be
that no news Of Stanley is good news. BY
this time he is probably with the brave
Emin Bey. In one of his last letters, one
dated Rediaz, January 20, 1887, Emin said !:
''As to my plans for the future. can only
repeat TO you that / am firmly resolved to
remain and persevere to the last, even in the
event of my getting no assistance" This
was no vain boast, for at that time Emin
Bey had no expectations of help. From
Egypt he knew there was no hope of aid /;
and, as he said, that other powers should
have at last contributed money to our sup
pert seems to me to be outside the region of
all possibility" Stanley's arrival will for a
moment relieve the anxieties of Eniin Bey.
1t will also inspirit his dusky subjects of the
Equatorial Province, make times prosperous
with them and restore their finances and the
morale Of their army. But what will become
OF them after Stanley is gone? Without
Emin Bey they would soon become the prey
OF the slave traders; and under such cir
cumstances it does not seem probable that
Emin Bey would leave his post. If he re-
solves to remain, Stanley will undoubtedly
try to so dispose things in Central Africa
that the Equatorial Province may be safe
and peaceful for some time to come. The
march through the continent is thus only
one of the perplexing problems that con-
fronts Stanley.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29

There seems to be little reason to doubt
that Mr. Lamar, in spite Of his record, will
succeed in getting .on to the Supreme bench
Of the United States. There are one or two
Republican Senators who will vote for his
confirmation, apparently for the reason that
they fear that the President may send in a
more unfit nomination, and with all the
Democrats voting for it that Is enough.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29

General Greeley admits in his annual re-
port that the signal service during the past
year has made great many mistakes. In
deed in face of the record he could do moth
ing else. The cold wave signal was dis
played 541 times, but in ZIG cases the wave
failed to put in an appearance. OF the 1910
storm signals displayed AIS were failures.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29

There is no reason to doubt that McNeally
left the stolen bonds at Cairo as has been
stated. We should not be surprised If it
should turn out that he left them, too. in ac-
cordance with instructions from the bank
officers. While the bank officers are not
to blame for trying to get back their
property, they ought not to forget that
McNeally is thief, and that "a large part Of
his remorse probably proceeds from the fact
that most of the stolen property was of such
a character that it was of no use to him.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29
THE REPUBLICAN LEADER.
.rpoeton Herald

Congressman Thomas B. Reed is perhaps
the sharpest and the brightest man In Con-
gress in the House at Washington-not so
thoughtful and careful q reasoner, perhaps,
as Speaker Carlisle, or so active and indus
trions person as S. $. Cox, or so studious a
rhetorician as John ID. Long; but in bril-
liancy our impression is that he surpasses
them all, and he has loads of reserve power
of which they afford no indication.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29

If Mayor o'Brien doesn't behave himself
this year he viii be hauled over the Goals by
the Boston Law and Order League, an Or
ganization made up of the best citizens, who
mean that the government shall be conduct
ed honestly and the laws enforced.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
TCincinnati Commercial G azette.

The sum of the Presidents message is that
he has rendered lodging the tariff question
excessively difficult but he has made it an
edges of the rugged issues. Having com.
mitted himself with run, hop, step, jump
warwhoop and wild plunge, he must craw
out attracting as little attention to his
retractions as the nature of the case will
narn,it
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29
THE PRESS
THURSDAY MORNING. DEC. 90.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu
nications The name and address OF the writer
are IN all cases indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as guarantee Of good faith.
We cannot undertake TO return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29
EAGLE SUGAR REFINERY.

VyHE stockholders of the Eagle Sugar Refinery
Il are hereby notified that their annual meeting
for choice of Directors and action upon any other
business that may come before them, will be held
at the Refinery Office, Fore St., Portland, Maine,
on TUESDAY, January 10, 1888, at o'clock p.
m. JOS. L. THOMfoON, clerk:
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